The following company is generally responsible (“we” or “us”) for data processing under this privacy policy: The Federation of Migros Cooperatives, SQTS – Swiss Quality Testing Services, Limmatstrasse 152, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland info@sqts.ch, +41 (0)58 577 10 00.
Depending on the occasion and purpose, we process different personal data. You will find more details in this section. We generally collect your personal data directly from you, e.g. when you send us data or communicate with us. However, it may also be collected from other sources. This applies in particular to the following personal data:
We process personal data concerning you in particular for the following purposes:
Our employees have access to your personal data to the extent necessary for the purposes described and the activities of the employees concerned. This includes employees in support areas such as IT. In doing so, they act in accordance with our instructions and are bound to confidentiality and secrecy when handling your personal data. It is also possible that personal data will be passed on to other companies. In these cases, the recipient of the data is a separate data controller and subject to data protection law. This applies, for example, to the following cases:
When you visit our websites 'sqts.ch' and 'schadensanalyse.ch', the following data is transmitted via your browser and temporarily stored in a log file:
This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources.
Our websites “sqts.ch” and “schadensanalyse.ch” use cookies. Cookies are text files that are placed and stored on a computer system via an Internet browser. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognise your browser on your next visit.
You can prevent our website from setting cookies at any time by adjusting the settings on your internet browser, which enables you to permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time via your internet browser or other software programmes. This is possible in all common internet browsers. Please note that if you deactivate the setting of cookies, it may no longer be possible to fully use all functions of our website.
If you send us enquiries via the contact form or by email, the information you provide on the enquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We also do not pass on this data without your consent. Since communication by email does not use a secure data connection, please refrain from sending confidential information via it.
Our websites “sqts.ch” and “schadensanalyse.ch” use functions developed by the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses “cookies”. They enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the “cookies” about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
We have activated the IP anonymisation function on our “sqts.ch” and “schadensanalyse.ch” websites. This means that your IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area from being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.
The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyse the flow of visitors to our websites “sqts.ch” and “schadensanalyse.ch”. Google uses the data and information obtained, among other things, to evaluate the use of our website, to compile online reports for us showing the activities on our websites, and to provide other services related to the use of our website.
You can prevent the setting of cookies by our website, as already described above, at any time by modifying the settings on your internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, you have the option to object to the collection of data generated by Google Analytics and related to the use of this website, as well as to the processing of this data by Google, and to prevent such processing.
To do this, you must download and install this browser add-on. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about visits to websites may be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-on is considered by Google as an objection. If the information technology system of the data subject is deleted, formatted or reinstalled at a later point in time, you will have to install the browser add-on again in order to deactivate Google Analytics. If the browser add-on is uninstalled or deactivated by you or another person within your control, you have the option of reinstalling or reactivating the browser add-on.
Further information and Google's applicable privacy policy can be found here and here.
Our websites “sqts.ch” and “schadensanalyse.ch” use SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
We store your personal data in a personalised form for as long as it is necessary for the specific purpose for which we collected it, in the case of contracts usually at least for the duration of the contractual relationship. We also store personal data if we have a legitimate interest in storing it, e.g. for documentation and preservation of evidence purposes and for the protection and defence of legal claims. We also store your personal data for as long as they are subject to a statutory retention obligation.
We take appropriate security measures of a technical nature (e.g., encryption, pseudonymisation, logging, access restriction, data backup, etc.) and of an organisational nature (e.g., instructions to our employees, confidentiality agreements, audits, etc.) to maintain the security of your personal data, to protect it against unauthorised or unlawful processing, and to counteract the risk of loss, unintentional modification, unauthorised disclosure or unauthorised access. However, security risks cannot generally be completely ruled out; certain residual risks are usually unavoidable.
You can object to data processing at any time, especially data processing in connection with direct advertising (e.g. against advertising emails).
Within the scope of the law applicable to you, you also have the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of data processing and objection to our data processing and the right to receive from us, free of charge, the personal data that you have provided to us in a readable format. You also have the right to revoke your consent, without this affecting the lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to the time of revocation. You may also lodge a complaint with the responsible data protection authority.
When processing your personal data, we rely in particular on the following basic principles:
In addition, there is generally no obligation to disclose personal data to us unless you have a contractual relationship with us that gives rise to such an obligation. However, we will have to collect and process personal data that is necessary or legally required for the establishment and processing of a contractual relationship and for the fulfillment of the associated obligations. Otherwise, we will not be able to conclude or continue the contract in question. The processing of log data and certain other data when using websites is also mandatory. When communicating with us, we must at the minimum process the personal data that you provide to us or that we provide to you.
This privacy statement may be modified over time, especially if we change our data processing guidelines or if new legislation becomes applicable. We actively inform persons whose contact details are registered with us of such changes in the event of significant changes, if this is possible without disproportionate effort. In general, however, the version of the data protection statement that is current at the start of the processing in question applies to data processing in each case.
